Not sure if anyone is -- *ahem* -- adventurous enough to record this, but I thought I should throw it out there, if there's any interest. This is another one of those books with an exceedingly low print run that I'm shocked has a PDF scan out there. And it's certainly an LGBT staple... in one way or another.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 8th, 2017, 8:32 am

by DACSoft

ChuckW wrote:Alright, look... this certainly isn't great literature by any means, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 8th, 2017, 2:36 pm

by VfkaBT

I think I would include the first chapter in a collection of general erotica (alongside Casanova's memoirs, Marquis de Sade, Boccaccio, de Maupassant, Balzac, et al), but the second chapter is just too graphic. Can't see this being done as a whole book for LV.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 8th, 2017, 11:29 pm

by adonis

VfkaBT wrote:I think I would include the first chapter in a collection of general erotica (alongside Casanova's memoirs, Marquis de Sade, Boccaccio, de Maupassant, Balzac, et al)

There's clearly a hunger for this kind of material. "To His Mistress Going To Bed) is going viral (for Librivox) and "To His Coy Mistress" is also extremely popular. The key word would be erotic, rather than pornographic, with its assumption of an emotional component. To the list offered above might be added letters of Lovelace, from "Clarissa" or a chapter of "Venus Infers". You might also add "The Reeve's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales, or that pleasing speech of Iago's in "Othello" about sleeping with Cassio. At least ih my opinion.

Sincerely,
Tony Addison.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 10th, 2017, 8:38 am

by ChuckW

Yeah, um... I will say, certain aspects of Victorian erotica (both heterosexual and otherwise) can often make them fairly unpalatable and unpleasant. But who knows? Perhaps someone is feeling particularly brave (if that's the right word).

The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. Perdita Winstanley, the novel’s protagonist, struggles to balance the competing demands of her snobbish, conservative mother and sisters, her radical friends in the women’s rights movement, and an admirable but low-born chemist and his family. The Rebel of the Family also includes what is perhaps the first literary portrait of the late-Victorian lesbian community in London, featuring Bell Blount and her “little wife” Connie.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 10th, 2017, 9:23 am

by adonis

This doesn't appear to be in the catalogue. PD in the USA it says and often mentioned side by side with The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Part attributed to Oscar Wilde. Nobody knows for sure.

By the way, VfkaBT there's an excellent Audible recording of Dhalgren by Stefan Rudnicki I'm listening to at present (got a £4.50 a throw deal on for me, otherwise very expensive).

Sincerely,
Tony A.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 11th, 2017, 2:35 pm

by Elizabby

adonis wrote:This doesn't appear to be in the catalogue. PD in the USA it says and often mentioned side by side with The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Part attributed to Oscar Wilde. Nobody knows for sure.

I'm sure this one has been mentioned before - but it's not on PG and I can't find a source text for it.

The few quotes I have come across while looking for a full text source suggest this is fully and frankly pornographic (despite the descriptions I keep reading around the internet) so I'm unlikely to BC it myself but it would be nice to have it for the Wilde collection - according to my reading he was involved in the writing of it even if he didn't write it all himself.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 12th, 2017, 9:35 pm

by prosfilaes

Elizabby wrote:

adonis wrote:This doesn't appear to be in the catalogue. PD in the USA it says and often mentioned side by side with The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Part attributed to Oscar Wilde. Nobody knows for sure.

I'm sure this one has been mentioned before - but it's not on PG and I can't find a source text for it.

The few quotes I have come across while looking for a full text source suggest this is fully and frankly pornographic (despite the descriptions I keep reading around the internet) so I'm unlikely to BC it myself but it would be nice to have it for the Wilde collection - according to my reading he was involved in the writing of it even if he didn't write it all himself.

The text is right there on Wikisource, which links to this scan on Commons which links to the U. of British Columbia source.

Re: Request for more LGBT content

Posted: March 13th, 2017, 11:39 am

by VfkaBT

adonis wrote:This doesn't appear to be in the catalogue. PD in the USA it says and often mentioned side by side with The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Part attributed to Oscar Wilde. Nobody knows for sure.

By the way, VfkaBT there's an excellent Audible recording of Dhalgren by Stefan Rudnicki I'm listening to at present (got a £4.50 a throw deal on for me, otherwise very expensive).

Sincerely,
Tony A.

chapter 1, page 34 -- I may never hear the word 'birdie' again without blushing.

Thanks for the info, Tony. Delany's one of my favorite sf writers. One of my brother John's first gigs as an illustrator was in his 'Distant Stars' anthology. The cat he drew was based on his own pet, named Grunder.

ChuckW wrote:Either way, someone should really do Prime-Stevenson's Left to Themselves as a solo project. It's available online and definitely deserves inclusion on this list, regardless of how "implicit" its central romance might be.

FYI.

I've obtained a copyright clearance for this one and plan to run it through DP and submit the ebook to PG. Once completed, I may solo the project here (and once one of my 2 in-progress projects are completed).

Not sure if anyone is -- *ahem* -- adventurous enough to record this, but I thought I should throw it out there, if there's any interest. This is another one of those books with an exceedingly low print run that I'm shocked has a PDF scan out there. And it's certainly an LGBT staple... in one way or another.

Just thought I'd throw out my differing opinion: We shouldn't record pornographic works. It's not a legacy worth continuing.